Friendly Reminder - Virtual PC 2007 is FREE (plus TONS of Pre-configured Demo Images)
One of the perks of being an employee is having all of our software available for free 24x7. Well, it turns out that YOU can also get access to TONS of our most current servers / apps preconfigured in a Virtual Hard Disk. They currently have Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite, Exchange 2007, SQL 2005, Windows Vista and more!
Virtual PC 2007 (now 100% free to download)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/downloads/virtualpc/default.mspx
Pre-configured Virtual Hard Disk (typically 30 days free trial and you can keep resetting the trial)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/try/vhd/default.mspx
These are some seriously cool tools to help you evaluate software / perform tests without having to build the systems yourself. Best of all, you can be up and running in a few hours. I even use it for my demos! Give it a try.